Talk:Steve King
Latest comment: 6 years ago by Butwhatdoiknow in topic Removal of quotes as (1) not independently well known and (2) not likely to stand the test of time.
Removal of quotes as (1) not independently well known and (2) not likely to stand the test of time. edit
I am removing these quotes again, and for the same reasons. My removal was reverted, I later learned, because the reverter believed the quote met most, if not all, of the other five Wikiquote:Quotability factors and my removal was politically motivated. With regard to the first rationale I respond that 5 out of 7 factors is not enough. With regard to the second rationale I respond that the motivation of the editor - whether that of the editor who adds a quote or that of the editor who removes a quote - is not a quotability factor. Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 13:42, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
- And, now that I look at them again, they're not particularly witty, pithy, eloquent, or poignant either. Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 12:47, 4 February 2018 (UTC)